Dish and holder for ice-cream.



Patented Aug. 4, 1914,

R. SWEERS.

DISH AND HOLDER FOR ICE CREAM.-

APPLICATION FILED FEB.6,1914.

WITNESSES: %c M,

UNITED srnrns RILEY swnans, or reason. OHIO.

DISH AND HOLDER FOR ICE-CREAM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filcdFebruary Q, 1914. SerialNo.816.869.'

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I. RILEY SWEERS, a citi--zen of the United States, residing at 13] Prescott street, Toledo, inthe county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Dishes and Holders for Ice-Cream; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear,'and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which ituppertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying draw ings and to the letters and figures of ref: erencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In ice cream parlors l and other places where ice cream and the like aredispensed and where at times it is necessary to serve many customers ina short time, the chiliculty of thoroughly cleansing the ice creamdishes in rush hours as fast as the dishes are used, is manifest. Evenunder the most favorable circumstances, where hot water and soap andother conveniences are available, the absolute cleanliness of the dishesis generally not free from doubt.

One of the objects of my invention is to obviate the objection hereindicated by furnishing a dish which shall be entirely clean and sterileand which, while being ornamental and attractive in appearance. is socheap that it may be thrown away or destroyed after being once used, andthis with little if any greater expense than attends the washing of theordinary dish.

A further object of my invention is to provide a holder for the dishesabove referred to, with which the dish may be instantly and firmlyengaged, to give it the necessary stability, and from which the dish maybe. readily and quickly detached.

To these ends, my invention consists of the devices hereinafterdescribed and shown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, inwhich- Figure l. is a perspective view of my dish -holder with a dishpartly inserted therein or partly removed therefrom; Fig. 2, a centralvertical sectional elevation of the. holder with the dish removed, andFig. 3, a top-plan-view of the holder.

Like numerals represent throughout the drawings,

In the drawings, 1 is a thin flexible re silient wood dish, of about thethickness of thin veneer, cut or scooped by means of like parts a curvedknife in concavo-convex form and having substantially a circular levelman g n. It is not essential, however, that the dish-margin be a truecircle since the dish is quite fiexible and in the course of manufactureand through warping and shrinkage will vary from the circular form butwill, within certain limits, quite readily conform 'to its holder, nowto be described.

2 is theholder, preferably of metal, cast,

stamped, spun or otherwise formed as may be desired. Iii-the form of theholder shown,-by Way of example-in the drawings, the holder consists ofan upper bowl-like part 3 supported by a standard 4 and having abroadened disk-like supporting base 5. The bowlhke portion may be, andpreferably is, com posed of open or filigree work. The upper margin ofthe bowl-like part is turned outwardly and downwardly-to form a flange6. Projecting upwardly from the edge of the bowl-like part of the holderis a series of hooks or fingers 7, the extremities of which are turnedinwardly to form hook-like portions, as clearly illustrated in F ig. 2.The dish is slipped edgewisemnder and in en gagement with the hooks atone side of the holder and is pressed into place, so that the edge ofthe dish,being flexible,-may be forced laterally into place as will beunderstood from Fig. 1. To remove the dish it is only necessary toreverse the operation and to then slip the dish edgewise away from theholder. Since as above stated, these dishes are not uniformly andexactly circular upon their upper margins, it becomes necessary to makesome provision in the holder for the accommodation of a diversity ofshapes. "While the outer circumference of the upper part of the holderis circular in outline, it will be observed by inspection of Fig. 3 andthe dotted dimensional lines therein, that the inner line of the upperrim of the holder approaches somewhat a quadrilateral form. It will alsobe seen that if the dish be not perfectly round, it will, when forcedinto place, as above described, have room to bulge slightly to one sideor the other of either one ofthe retaining hooks, and will thus beforced into substantially circular form.

Thus far the only sort of dish to which I-have referred is a wood dish.As this dish is cut from a hot steamed block of wood, it is clean andsterile and is by far preferably to any other kind of dish such as isPatented Aug. 4, 1914, i

designed to be used but once. It is clearp however, that while not sodesirable, other 1. In a device of the described character,

a dish-holder adapted for the reception of a substantially circularresilient dish and hav-* ing a run and upon ts run dish-engagingdevices, the inner circumference of said rim being bowed outwardly at aplurality of points. 7

2. 1n a device of the described character, a holder comprising anextended base and a bowl-like portion having upon its rim a series ofinwardly projecting fingers, said rim havin outwardly bowed portions between the ngers.

3. In a device of the described character. a thin flexible resilientconcave-convex dish having a substantially level curvilinear upper edge,combined with a holder having 1 plurality of engaging means\vitl'fivhich said dish may be sprung into operative engagement, the rimof said holder having outwardly bowed portions between said engagingmeans.

in testnnony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RILEY SlVEER-S.

